Ensure that SABC programming output meets targets for audience share, is commercially viable and fulfils mandate requirements by commissioning a diverse range of quality programmes
• Manage, motivate and develop teams as well as be part of a team that creates and nurtures partnerships with various stakeholders including sponsors, the public, clients and project partners
• Establish and maintain relations with independent producers and industry bodies
• To develop local content factual programming from idea through script to screen.
• Keeping abreast of factual trends locally and in the international market.
• Commission programmes of high artistic and technical quality and standard that comply with the SABC mandate and Board Goals.
• Identifying and sourcing new talent in the various areas of production.
• Ensuring that audiences are satisfied with factual offerings.
• An editor/editorial advisor on programs to be broadcast.
• Giving creative input into the factual portfolio’s present programmes and in imagining new programmes.
• Work closely with other SABC areas (research, marketing and sales) to maximize audience share and income
MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS
1989 Level achieved : Matriculated with an exemption in 1989
1991 - School Of Broadcasting : Broadcasting course
2002 – BIRNAM COLLEGE
Diploma in Public Relations & Communication
2004 University of SA.
BA Communication Science degree credits:
Communication Law 101, -
Introduction to Communication, Persuasive Communication, Public Speaking,
Organisational Communication, Intercultural, developmental and Health Communication, Introduction to
English Studies 101, Introduction to English Studies 102, -English Communication for Business, English
Communication for University, English Studies 202, Politics as a Social Activity, Understanding the State,
Political Behaviour and Participation, Public Policy, Research in Social Sciences.
OTHER
- Represented and participated on behalf of the SABC at different film festivals locally and internationally including amongst others:
• the IDFA The Netherlands, Amsterdam Nov 2006 on international co-financing of documentaries
• AMMA Awards, Abuja in 2008.
• Abuja Film Festival in 2007 and responsible for licensing some of the films featured in these festivals
• including a film that won the best documentary in this festival called This Is Nollywood for broadcast
• on SABC1 in 2008.
- Main coordinator of SABC sponsored film festivals on behalf of the Factual Genre
Encounters International Documentary Film Festival
Tri-Continental Film Festival
Wild Talk Africa
- Commissioning Editor responsible for strategic factual properties of the SABC’s Factual Genre and Credited for amongst others:
• Zola 7 Series 3 through to 7 – A known and most popular reality shows ever on South African television screens. It is a signature property for SABC1 that delivers highly on mandate, ratings and revenue. It’s a single most popular factual property in the country that has managed to deliver drama ratings consistently for years.
• As an empowerment initiative, Thando Shozi has been instrumental in the transferring of a contract from Ochre Media to Z7 Media thereby empowering this new black owned entity of Zola (Bonginkosi Dlamini), a black presenter. Through this property, Thando Shozi is involved in the building of what will come to be known as The Zola 7 Village that will house 50 to a 100 families from disadvantaged communities in South Africa.
• I Am South African (A live SABC2’s Human Rights Special)
• (The) Glow of a White Woman 2008 (from SABC’s strand of films called Black on White) co-production with BBC and produced by Littlebird won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles.
• Impi Yamakhanda: A documentary on the Bhambatha Uprising of 1906.
• Ungumuntu Ngabantu 2009 - A documentary on the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma.
• Black Adam- The End of the White Guy? “You’re a White Guy on a South African visitor’s visa whose time is nearly up…” is what a Black Guy told Dominic, the main character in this nonfiction feature film. It’s set him on a journey that will turn him inside out. A journey that will be embodied in a conversation with iconic dinner guests with one simple task: dismantle the White Guy and put him back together as a Human Being.
- SABC Employment Equity (EE) member since 2005.
- HIV/AIDS Peer Educator / Supporter.
- Voice-over artist for Dubbed children’s programmes, Radio advertisements and radio drama (Zulu & English).
